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Thu, 02/13/2025 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
A new documentary shows just how vulnerable democracies are to authoritarian overthrow
Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her political cartoons. Recently, she left the Washington Post after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires bowing down to Trump. Now Ann is at the center of a documentary by Laura Nix (The Yes Men Are Revolting) called Democracy Under Siege.
In this special hourlong episode, we hear from Ann, as well as Laura Nix, who's been a film expert for the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase and has an insider's view of the workings of the federal government's now-endangered cultural outreach programs.
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